DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 21 METRES EAST OF BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL AT SP 145 568

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382700
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 21 METRES EAST OF BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL AT SP 145 568
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 21 METRES EAST OF BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL AT SP 145 568

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1382700
Date first listed:: 06-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-2000
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 21 METRES EAST OF BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL AT SP 145 568
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 21 METRES EAST OF BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL AT SP 145 568

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE APPROXIMATELY 21 METRES EAST OF BILLESLEY MANOR HOTEL AT SP 145 568

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Billesley
National Grid Reference:: SP 14848 56728

Details

BILLESLEY

SP15NW Dovecote approx. 21m east of 1931-1/1/5 Billesley Manor Hotel at SP 145 568 06/02/52 (Formerly Listed as: Pigeon House at Billesley Manor)

GV II

Dovecote. C17 (or possibly C15, AMS); restored C20 by National Trust. Coursed blue lias rubble, partly rendered; steeply pitched renewed tile roof. EXTERIOR: north end has low entrance with timber lintel over gate, with blocked opening above. West elevation has projecting course. South end has ledge below peak of gable. East elevation has remains of plastering and small hole. Roof has 2 rebuilt gabled louvres. INTERIOR: walls lined with stone nesting boxes, recorded as having 700 boxes; one tie beam and collar truss with struts. (Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society: Beacham MJA: Dovecotes in England: An Introduction and Gazeteer: 1990-: 128).

Listing NGR: SP1484456727

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Legacy System number:: 483085
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beacham, M J A, 'Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society' in Dovecotes In England: An Introduction And Gazeteer, (1990), 128

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.